Page 91 - The Cambrian Evidence that Darwin Failed to Comprehend

HARUN YAHYA

parent it becomes that the process of evolution did not actually take
place, but is a deceptive 19th-century myth.

The Fossils Are Examined

In the 1980s, when the fossils obtained from Burgess Shale were
finally subjected to examination by Harry Wittington, Derek Briggs
and Simon Conway-Morris, evolutionists found themselves faced
with a biological explosion had taken place 530 million years ago,
and which could now no longer be ignored.
Stephen Jay Gould studied the structures exhibited by life
forms in the Cambrian explosion and considered Burgess Shale in
his award-winning book Wonderful Life. He described the fact re-
vealed by this important discovery:

. . . we must understand that nothing happens most of the time—and
we don’t because our stories don’t admit this theme. . . The Burgess
Shale teaches us that, for the history of basic anatomical designs, al-
most everything happened in the geological moment just before
[emphasis added], and almost nothing in more than 500 million years
since. 55
Simon Conway-Morris described the difficulty that the Burgess
Shale “problematica” represented for evolution:

How can we be so optimistic, when some paleontologists still argue
that the existence of the Burgess Shale problematica threatens to un-
dermine a significant portion of evolutionary theory? 56

Even while evolutionist scientists were struggling to account
for the Burgess Shale beds, two other fossil locations similar to
Burgess Shale were discovered in the 1980s: the Sirius Passet in
northern Greenland and the Chengjiang in southern China. In these
regions, the astonishing variety of animals that lived in the
Cambrian revealed themselves in even greater detail. In particular,

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